The BackBlast:

AO:

castle_black

Pax Names:

Dixie Chick, Oddjob, Babyface, Floppy, Woody, Gepetto, Legionnaire, Wilson, Hank Hill, Earhart

Number of Pax:

10 PAX

FNG Names:

Number of FNGs:

0 FNGs

Intro:

Who Q? Me Q?

The goal was Merlot. While we didn’t achieve that goal, we definitely kept moving on this fine B.L.A.C.K. Tuesday morning.

Warm-o-Rama:

Short mosey, 20 SSH, Weedpicker stretch (OYO), Michael Phelps (OYO) Sun gods (OYO)

The Thang:

The Thang 1. We moseyed down the hill to the entrance to the AO. Using the acronym B.L.A.C.K. for our movements, we made our way back up the hill. We Bear-crawled from the first light pole to the second light pole. SSH for the 6. We partnered up for Leapfrog from light pole to to light pole 3. SSH for the 6. Then an Arms-up mosey to light pole 6. Crawl-beared from light pole 6 to light pole 7. Then we Karaoke'ed to the Flag.

The Thang 2. We moseyed to Northeast side of the Castle Black race track (drop-off point of lot). We partnered up for some Burpicides! One partner sprinted to the other side of the parking lot while other partner knocked out as many burpees as possible for a combined count of 50. We moseyed the long way around to the Southwest side of the race track (literally 10 paces from where we did the burpees). Plank for 6. From here, one partner executed walking Lunges around the track while the other ran. Once running partner caught up to lunging partner, they switched until they had lunged an entire lap. Plank for 6. We moseyed back to where we did the Warm-O-Rama and executed Alotta Merkins! With a partner, we did 100 merkins. While one was merkin' one was duck walkin'. Plank for 6. We moseyed back down the hill about 2/3 of the way. We executed Carolina dry docks–100 with partner. One partner executed the CDD while the other did LBCs–once tired, they switched. Plank for the 6. Last mosey? All the way to the base of the hill where we started The Thang 1. Every HIM for himself, 150 flutter kicks (both legs count as 1 unless you're Legionnare–I think he did 349 flutter kicks).

The Thang 3. We had the time, so we rinsed and repeated The Thang 1 back up the hill (except that we replaced karaoke with butt Kicks to the flag).

Mary: J-LOs, American Hammers, Freddie Mercurys, Dying Cockroach, Monkey Humpers

Legionnaire had us at 1.62 miles, my inferior Steve Jobbs watch said 2.15 miles

COT:

Praise and continued prayers for C4's father and Hombre's father. We thanked God for our ability to rise before the sun and get after it. We prayed for healing and unity in our families and that said unity would overflow into His local churches–that we would all be unified in vision and purpose. We prayed for His will to be done through us.

Naked Man Moleskin:

Funny story: when MSG, Aphrodite, and YHC were just Daniel, Jason S. and Jason K., we noticed there wasn't a beatdown in Ball Ground. We thought we would just start our own. Upon wise counsel from Oddjob, we decided to check out a beatdown before trying to start one. That happened to be the Happy Jack! We realized quickly that we had not been freed to lead yet. That was a much needed reality check. That was the first Thursday in December of last year.

After learning from some savage HIMs, we are at least empowered to Q. Major thanks to Dixie Chick for getting Castle Black going and for all the HIMs who lead by example.

Good work!